Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-25
ANOTHER MURDER.
How JOHN BASORB, OF HARDY, NIT HIS
DEATH.
A Mysry IN Taylor Oounty-A New Oil Wen N
Marshall-An Epidemic in
POeahOniaS

POeahOntaS
An investigation into the death Of John
Basore, of Lost river, Handy county, shows
that another cold-bloOded murder has been
perpetrated. The facts are still smeager,
but the following details have been gath
cred. John Basore, the victim, was an
old man, perhaps IS years of age. For
wears he was addicted to drink, but was
quiet, inoffensive, clever man, and always
enjoyed joke. He lived in the Cove,
near Joseph Matthias store, and had a
large family. For few days previous
and up to his death Mr.. Basore had been
on spree, and was about the store good
deal. On Tuesday he was there drinking
with Thomas Gaffaey and Others, and
after the store was closed and everybody
had left Gafney and Basore re-
manned on the porch talking. At
about one o'clock Wednesday morning Joe
Matthias got up and went to the store and
noticed Basore sitting on box on the porch.
Matthias went into the store and while there
he heard Basore fall over on basket. He
wentout and noticed that BasOre was bleed
ing. He then this is Matthias tale, in sub
stance) aroused the family and they got Ba-
sore up and found that he was unconscious
and had bled good deal from q cut above
the right eye, which they supposed he
had gotten in the fall. Thinking the
cut only slight, they sewed it mp. After
some time, Basore not rallying, DIR. Hall
was sent for The Doctor found the old
mans skull was mashed; and in the even
ing he sent to Moorefeld for a physician
and the necessary surgical instruments.
DR.. H. s. Hedges went. over that night,
but BasOre died at o'clock that evening,
having remained unconscious till death.
jury investigated the case. and as the
evidence pointed to Thomas Gafney as the
murderer, he was arrested and jailed.
Gaffney is an old man, anL a shoemaker
by trade.
A MYSTERY.
Some weeks ago the Grafton Sentinel con-
tanned an item in regard to the discovery
of lock of hair in the heart of q chestnut
tree on the lands of Mr.. Thomas j. Keener,
near Fetterman. This week the editor
says: We were shown the curiosity by Mr..
George Travis, of Fetterman. The tree
was cut down by Thomas J. Keener and
Isaac w. johnson some time in last jan
uary and, in splitting it for rails, the lock
of hair referred to was found imbedded
about two and one-half inches from the
center, carefully wrapped in what appears
to be tough quality of brown paper. The
tree measured feet and inches in diam
eter, and Mr.. Travis informs us that he
cOlnted $50 growths of solid wood from
where the paper containing the hair was
found. The hair is of q reddish brown
color, and, from its fiber, is supposed to be
Indian hair. AS in all probability it was
placed where found fully two or three cen
turtles ago, and it is not probable that the
owner will be claimant for it.
SUSPICIOUS
A correspondent of the Buckhannon
Delta, who lives on the edge of Randolph
county, writes to the paper that as he was
going to Buckhannon on Friday, April
18th, in company with John Schockey,
they discovered large number of papers
strewn around at a certain place in the
road, and also DR.. Pierce day book, that
had been shot through apparently with a
number of No. 2 buckshot The letters
were addressed to f. G. Bird, Millridge,
Va. On one OF the envelopes was printed,
''To be returned to the Agents Supply
Company, New York" These papers
were found between Union Church and
Moss store, along by Wesley Groves
fence. There was a log rolled into fence
corner, and the papers seemed as if they
had been laid on the log, and the wind had
blown them around.
MORE OIL IN MARSHALL COUNTY.
They are experiencing quite an oil ex-
element out in the Board Tree region in
Marshall county just now. Last Satur-
day about 10 o'clock, at the well being
bored on Knob run by the West Virginia
Company, the bit tapped the sand and the
oil spurted up, making things in and
about the derrick quite likely for little
time. The well was Immediately closed
down and the prOprietOrs telegraphed. A
specimen of the oil was shown a scout by
DR.. II. ii. Riggs. The scout says he sue
ceeded in getting near enough to see the
guards sitting on the fence at safe dis
lance from the well. He says the oil re-
sembles that taken from the celebrated
Herndon well in the Bradford pa. region.
SUDDEN AND PECULIAR DEATH.
A colOred woman by the name Of Ma
linda Duncan, died very suddenly last
Wednesday evening at Parkersburg, Just
after the services at the Zion Baptist
church. She was attending church that
evening, and during the services became
faint and was attacked with q severe case
of coughing She lett the church, and
started home, but at the corner of Eighth
and Avery streets she was completely
overcome and was taken to the house of
Eliza Brown, where she sONa expired.
SICKNESS IN POCAHoNTAs.
There is quite serious epidemic raging
on Beaver creek, in Pocahontas comfy, for
some time in the shape of typhus pneu
mOnia. Mss. Letcher Simms and Mrs. Lee
Simms, both young women, have died with
it in the last week, and Letches Simms is
at the point of death. On Sunday morning
Sylvester Perry, son of VIM. T. Perry, who
resides about two mile south of Hunters
vile, died Of the same complaint.
AN OLD TIMER.
Last Saturday Leighton, aged 11s, died
at the almshouse, Cumberland. The ac-
tual age of the man cannot be accurately
ascertained, and beyond his own state
ment no proof exists. He has frequently
averred that he was born in the year 176S,
and had vivid recollections of incidents
which occurred during the Revolutionary
war. That he is over one hundred years
old is pretty we'll suhStantiated by the
statement of one of the inmates who is
eighty years old and says that he remem-
bered Leighton as grown man when he
1.-THE inmate) was boy.
FAST TIME.
1t is said that the fastest time ever made
over the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, OF
any part Of it, was made by Capt. A. r.
Goodwin, in command Of the material
train Of that road, one day last week. The
Captain ran his train from Huntington TO
Charleston, distance of 81 miles, in 81
minutes-very nearly "mile a minute"
and from st. Adams, just twelve miles,
in twelve minutes.